All made specific reference to inclusion of First Nations children and noted the need for appropriate ELCC programs for minority official language children, children with distinct cultural and linguistic backgrounds, and children with special needs.
Section 23 of the Canadian Charter of Rights and Freedoms obliges the provinces to offer minority official language speakers education in their first language (Beach, Friendly, Ferns, Prabhu, & Forer, 2009, p. xxx).
Especially among some minority officials, who have faulted policies like "stop-and-frisk" searches as unfairly aimed at their members, Mr. Kelly was the subject of rough language.
On the day before his trip here, Mr. Cuomo announced the appointments of two Hispanics to posts in his administration; he had named two other minority officials to jobs the week before.
In recent weeks Mr. Schundler's image as someone who can be attractive to urban minority voters has frayed under assaults from some of the very minority officials who served in his administration.
Mr. Kerry's campaign manager, Mary Beth Cahill, and his three highest-ranking minority aides, said in a telephone interview that they would soon roll out an outreach plan, tapping local minority officials and their political networks.
In one of the sharper exchanges of the whole campaign season, the Rev. Al Sharpton confronted Dr. Dean with what Mr. Sharpton described as the lack of minority officials in senior positions in Dr. Dean's administration as governor.
So the basic social precondition for realizing the de-politicization of ethnic issues is for Han officials and people to treat minority officials, intellectuals and ordinary people with an attitude of mutual respect, equality, love and help.
Yet international rights groups, as well as the United Nations, have expressed concerns about civil liberties, the treatment of the Tamil minority and official intimidation.
They took shelter by climbing atop a police control post.None of that encourages friendly ties, but it might at least be set aside as the actions of an ugly, ill-educated minority, not official policy.
The jokes didn't always work — a cameo introducing the "minority outreach" official Stacey Dash, a conservative actress who had criticized Black History Month on Fox News, seemed to perplex much of the audience and perhaps also Ms. Dash.
